Sahil | Matchday Maestro

Liam Rosenior is cooking the same football Julian Nagelsmann built his entire career on. And nobody has connected the dots. 🔄 Fluid formations — back 3 ↔ back 4 in-game depending on the moment 🎯 Central overloads over traditional wide play ⚡ Fullbacks/wing-backs as attackers, not defenders 🧠 Obsessive build-up from the back with short passing sequences 🔥 High press to win the ball back immediately 🧬 No touchline wingers — attacking midfielders in the half-spaces instead Nagelsmann did this at Hoffenheim → Leipzig → Bayern → now runs Germany. Rosenior did this at Hull → Strasbourg → now runs Chelsea. "Mini Mourinho" 🤝 "Le Professeur" The blueprint is identical. The trajectory is matching. The only question is how far Rosenior takes it. 📌 Remember this tweet.

@ammandev Personally, I think he's right not to go for Sesko, Everton backline bar Gardner are fairly physical and Beastly. Utilize Mbeumos and Amads pace and Cunhas shithousery is all but perfect. Sesko super-sub to hit when those let's get tired is an all but perfect tactics imo.

Surprised to not see Sesko start, but the fluidity of that front three is likely to cause Everton far more problems than they did v West Ham - as the individual battles are more suited to us. Let’s see how they get on… 🙌

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@BBCMOTD Is it really this easy to rage bait Arsenal fans 😂😂😂 Next time I'll be sure you go with a wilder remark.... 🤔🤔🤔 Gabriel to stone cold stunner Xavi Simon's next game...

@BBCMOTD Gabriel Jesus grabbed a man by the face and finished the game with no card. Arsenal's PR team must be working overtime this season...

Gabriel Jesus at the end of Wolves 2-2 Arsenal 😡

@Lea_EFC Arteta before the game: 'The position we are in is a privilege.' The position after the game: 2-2 against the worst team in the Premier League with City breathing down your neck. Some privilege....

🗣️”How many points clear could Arsenal have been tonight if you didn’t bottle it at Wolves?” Mikel Arteta:

@SkySportsPL Merson acting shocked that Arsenal gave the ball away cheaply against a team with 10 points all season like that's the headline. The headline is they were 2-0 up and couldn't close it out. Again. Third season running the mentality cracks when it matters.

"I can't believe how many times they gave away the ball so cheaply!" 😤 Paul Merson analyses Arsenal's performance away at Wolves 🔍

@BBCSport Spent all summer getting Gyökeres and he's invisible against the worst defence in the league. When are we allowed to ask if he's actually an upgrade on what they had?

Concerning form? 🤔 Arsenal have only picked up 13 points from a possible 24 since the turn of the year 😬

@UnitedStandMUFC Name one title-winning side that drew 2-2 away to a team on 10 points after being 2-0 up. I'll wait...... 🍼🍼💦💦💦

United fans, thoughts on Arsenal potentially bottling the league? 👇 #mufc

@ammandev Guardiola sat at home watching Arsenal throw away 2 points against a team with 10 points all season. City's game in hand could make this a 2-point gap. He's not even doing anything and the title race is coming to him 😂

Are Arsenal scared of being champions or something? Like something’s off here… 🥴

@TheAthleticFC Arsenal have now drawn 7 of 27 league games. That's 14 points dropped to draws alone. Last season they dropped 21 points from winning positions... joint worst in club history. It's not bad luck anymore. It's a pattern. And City have a game in hand. 🍼🍼💦

Arsenal are five points clear at the top of the Premier League. They won't feel like they are this evening. Mikel Arteta's side drop more points in 2026 and dangle a carrot in front of Manchester City. A spirited fightback from bottom side Wolves, who came from two goals down to draw 2-2, may have blown the title race wide open.

@SkySportsPL Calafiori scoring an own goal in the 93rd minute against the worst team in the Premier League to hand City a lifeline in the title race. You genuinely couldn't write it. Arsenal DNA. 🫢🫢

FULL-TIME: An Arsenal capitulation and a night to savour for Wolves as the Gunners drop more points in the title race! 👀

Arsenal only have themselves to blame..... 2-0 up against a team with one win all season. Title winners don't do this. Third year running Arsenal have found a way to bottle it 🤯🤯 #bottlejob #AFC #PremierLeague

Just going to leave this here..... 🫢🫢🫢🫢 #AFC #PremierLeague

You've just listed 6 midfielders at Newcastle, 6 at Liverpool, 8 at Spurs and none of those teams are above us. We're 4th with a 36-year-old Casemiro in a double pivot. Carrick flipped the system so Mainoo sits deeper and Cas pushes forward. It's working. The man's been called back to Brazil's starting XI under Ancelotti. The summer isn't about 'completely transforming.' Casemiro walks, that's £350k/week freed. Maguire too — another £200k. We don't need a whole midfield roster 2/3 smart acquisitions with elite 6 and one 8 who can carry the ball. Anderson, Baleba Wharton, Matteus Fernandes, Stiller, João Gomez, Ederson, Ayyoub Bouaddi the optional list is endless... Imo id happily take Ederson, Matteus Fernandes. Wharton. All affordable with £120m.

I am not sure if this is correct question. We don’t want to replace Casemiro. We want to improve. What is needed if we qualify for the CL? 🔺Newcastle have Bruno Guimaraes, Sandro Tonali, Jacob Ramsey, Joelinton, Miley, and Joe Wilcox in their midfield — and it hasn’t been enough. 🔺Liverpool have Mac Allister, Gravenberch, Szoboslai, Endo, Curtis Jones and Florian Wirtz in their midfield — and it hasn’t been enough. 🔺Tottenham have Bentancour, Joao Palinha, Bissouma, Bergvall, Archie Grey, Connor Gallagher, Xavi Simmons, James Maddison and Pape Mata Sarr in their midfield — and it hasn’t been enough. And so forth. We have Mainoo and Ugarte. I also think we must look at it from this perspective. On 21 May 2025, Tottenham beat us 1-0 — qualifying them for Europe while sentencing us to only playing in the PL. We are currently 16 pts ahead of Tottenham in the PL and we have pissed away a lot of points. They have 10+ injuries. If we would have won that game on 21 May 2025 — I have to be honest, I think this would have been reversed. Sure we would have signed 1-2 more players. But we would have played our top guys till they wore out, we would have had 2x injuries, etc etc etc. We saw it against West Ham — not getting a week rest showed so much. I don’t think that it’s only Liverpool, Tottenham and Newcastle who are struggling. Arsenal can’t score from open play. City is so far from their peak. Long story short — if we don’t completely transform our squad this summer — we could easily be looking at finishing in the bottom half of the league in 26/27 EVEN if we replaced Casemiro with like Rodri.

Selling Woltemade after one season would be the most Newcastle thing Newcastle have ever done. 10 PL goals, 24 yrs old, a goal every 178 minutes in his debut English season. Stuttgart didn't even register him for the CL. Six months later he had 17 goals and a cup final winner. Let him cook👨🏾‍🍳👨🏾‍🍳

@UnitedStandMUFC @ChrisWheelerDM Two different budgets depending on CL qualification? This man has sacked two managers in 15 months, spent £30m+ in compensation doing it, and we're supposed to believe the BUDGET is the problem? The budget isn't the issue. The man writing the cheques is.

🗣 @ChrisWheelerDM: "United’s budget this summer will be night and day depending on whether they qualify for the Champions League. They’ll effectively be working with two different budgets, two different shopping lists and two completely different plans. "If United secure Champions League football and £100m-plus, that would be transformative. It would put them back at the top table in terms of the players they can attract and the salaries they can offer. Without a top-four or top-five finish, could United afford to pay Elliott Anderson’s wage demands? I’m not so sure." [@UnitedStandMUFC]

I think you misunderstood the context of my message. It's the idea and principles around traveling and PR built around it... Also don't forget it's world cup year. The facts as it stands, "no manager/Head Coach", unprepared squad, lack of genuine preseason prep. The Saudi pre-season travel is just as much waste of time and the US tour we did last season... 40-60% was PR and events etc. I want this team to succeed as much as the next fan, I'm simple sick of the mediocre level we've been at for years, but get your ducks in order and focus on the ball not the money grabbing aspect... Because any fan thinking "well, that's £18m re-investment back into the club" WAKE UP and smell the coffee our ownership will pocket every penny

@MaestroMatchday @DeadlineDayLive @TimesSport U call yourself a fan. No wonder they say us man utd have shit fans. Because of ppl like u. Yes they probably are just on a bounce but that doesn’t mean u should shit on your own team.

🚨 The Saudi Pro League are preparing an £18M offer for Manchester United to play their 2026 pre-season in Saudi Arabia during July and August. (Source: @TimesSport)

@NeilCronin92568 @DeadlineDayLive @TimesSport Totally agree. It says alot about the league this year, teams beating each other left right and center... It also truly helps that nothing else to play for means you've got full focus on the league.. so anything less than top 4 would be unacceptable

@MaestroMatchday @DeadlineDayLive @TimesSport Worst team at United in decades sitting in 4th says a lot tho

@DeeValleyX @DeadlineDayLive @TimesSport Give it a few months and you Wrexham boys will take the PL by storm. 💪🏾

@MaestroMatchday @DeadlineDayLive @TimesSport Oh there are some bitter people out there! Face facts; no other British team has the prestige that Utd have!

@_RP_77 @AdamMcKola All the potential in the world and gave it up the play FIFA ultimate team what a waste

@MaestroMatchday @AdamMcKola I for one thought Sancho could light up Old Trafford. As it turned out either the stage was too big, the lights too bright; or the balance was never quite right, or maybe his face just didn’t fit, who knows. Sometimes it just doesn’t work out.

Sancho isn't worth £55m with £54m in his pocket.